In The Lead.

(our Pandemic tally) FINALLY! We've been behind since last Wednesday but at 12:30pm this afternoon we pulled one game ahead. That's after 10 games yesterday and 7 games (so far) today... oh my goodness. It's ridiculous! Now that we're ahead I think it might be time to put it away for a little while. I want my table back!

(The game board after game number 37)

We celebrated with nachos. And chocolate milk for dessert. Seemed appropriate, don't you agree?

Other good news, I bought these mums at Home Depot this week. I decided it was time I at least tried to make it look like I care about my little dirt patch out front. Besides, I was tired of just growing weeds. I'm hoping these last at least a couple of months, or until it's time to decorate for Christmas. Then maybe if I put some lights up it won't be so obvious that I don't take care of my garden...

Next piece of good news, we are almost finished writing thank you cards for all of these marvelous wedding gifts we received! My goodness there were a lot of gifts! They don't even all fit in this tiny apartment but we seem to be managing alright :) I feel bad that it's taken us so long to get the thank yous out but we finally made some time today, turned on Incredibles and wrote a whole bunch of them. It was very productive.

Steven finished his training with Rural Metro and will be starting full time soon. I'll be sad not to have him home with me every day but I suppose a paycheck might be nice and it will give me the opportunity to go out and find a job for myself.

I just registered for a few classes at the community college here in town. I'm going to take a series of four business classes and, the one I'm most excited about, a voice over class!! Hopefully I'll find out how to get some voice over work in the Seattle industry sometime in the near future. I think that would be so much fun!!

We've been enjoying the Enumclaw library. We're going to make it our goal to watch (and maybe at some point own) every John Wayne movie ever made. McClintock was last week and this week we've got Donovan's Reef.

We've also been watching the Seinfeld series. Uncle Scott was nice enough to lend us the first two seasons on DVD but we've only got one DVD left, so tonight will be our last night of watching 5 episodes of Seinfeld before we fall asleep. This is probably for the best.

Wow, our life isn't super exciting when you write it all out like that is it? But, we're having a marvelous time and it might be a long while before Steven gets to spend three straight weeks at home with me. I'm going to make the most of our time together (so bring on the board games and library DVDs!!!)

Epidemic!

So there's this game, called Pandemic.... and Steven and I may or may not have been playing it somewhat obsessively for the past three days. It's a game where you play as a team against the board to try to save the world from horrible diseases and there are epidemics and outbreaks and crazy things. On Monday, we played 5 games and did rather well. We won 3 and lost 2. On Tuesday, yesterday, we just couldn't get ahead!! We played off and on all day long and at 10 o'clock last night we were down by 3... we pushed through two more games but had to call it a night. We played TEN games yesterday and only won 4 of them!! So now we've got a tally going. We played 5 more games today but the board is still winning -- 11 games to 9 (the grand total from the last 3 days). It's ridiculous. Just thought I'd share.

1 Month of Married Life.

Can you believe it? It has been exactly a month since Steven and I got married. Bizarre. I don't even know how that much time has passed. We had a marvelous honeymoon, which should have it's own post in the very near future, and have just been getting settled in our new home since returning on September 5th. Steven hasn't started working yet so we spend a lot of time at home watching movies and drinking tea and playing games and eating m&ms. Life is good.



I can't believe I didn't have even one blog entry in August!! I know nobody cares except for me but that was the only month out of the entire last year that doesn't have an entry and it kind of makes me crazy. I meant to write one the day after the wedding just before we left for the honeymoon but things were a bit crazy.



August was a fabulous month. I feel like I was living life in a constant state of madness but I had a marvelous time. Laura and Victoria were here from England and Paige stayed with me for two weeks before the wedding and it was just one of the funnest times ever. Chad and Whitney were here from Boston for 2 weeks and Hilde came home from camp and Chelsea was here and Rachel returned from Hawaii and we were absolutely surrounded by all of our favorite people. It was incredibly overwhelming but I enjoyed it very much.



The wedding was perfect. Absolutely perfect. Couldn't have gone better. Thank you to God for a beautiful day (it was pouring down rain the next morning) and thank you to all of my wonderful friends/family who helped with decorations and baking and made sure that everything went smoothly. Amanda is still working on the photos but we've already seen quite a few of them and they're fantastic! http://sindisiwephotography.com/blog Can't wait to start putting them up around the apartment!!



I'm (kind of) looking for a job. There doesn't appear to be much to find so we'll go with the old "stand-bys" for now. I'm planning to apply to substitute teach and am seriously considering applying at our local Starbucks. Neither of these things sound super appealing to me but I know I can do them and I would really like a paycheck. There are also a few little gift shops in town that could be fun and of course there's South Hill mall in Puyallup, which probably has a few employment options. It's a good time of year to at least find something seasonal. It will sort itself out soon.



Well, I'm sort of treating today as a little anniversary. Nothing fancy and I'm not so sappy that I'll do it every month or be really obsessive about it or anything but I was thinking that maybe the 21st of each month would be a good excuse to make a nice dinner for the two of us to enjoy together. I told Steven he could choose the meal and his only request was "something you make with wine." So I found a recipe for shrimp scampi and I'm going to give it a try. We also have loads of left over wine from the wedding and champagne that was given to us as gifts so we'll probably enjoy some of that tonight as well. We found out on our honeymoon that we really like champagne mixed with ruby red grapefruit juice :) Steven has to go to drill for a few hours tonight but I think I'll make a raspberry tart to have for dessert when he gets him. Evidently this is his favorite dessert that I made and raspberries are on sale at Safeway this week -- score!!

That's all for now but I'll be back soon, I forgot how much I enjoy blogging.

Hugs!
Steph